When I was small, I had friends who lived on peanut butter, very nutritious, apparently, because they grew up just fine. Now that dark chocolate has crossed ranks from forbidden fruit to the ‘eat a square every day and live forever’ category—something to do, I believe, with antioxidants—Peanut Butter Brownies must be the ultimate in health food! Isn’t cooking fun? SAM

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9-inch square baking pan and set aside. With an electric mixer on medium speed, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating each until smooth. Add the vanilla extract. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder and add to the butter mixture, beating until smooth. Add the peanut butter and beat well. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack before cutting into 1 1/2-inch squares.
Makes 3 dozen squares.

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A Continuing Story of Great Food and Tempestuous Love

Episode 36: Oh, Promise Me!

Sam is right. There is on this wedding day unprecedented music in the spheres.

Blessed by chance and fine ingredients, swept up in the power of love and good cooking, bound together by the certain glory of a life to come, Harry and Sam pledge each to the other the tag ends of their earthly days.

Harry's mother sighs; Sam's sisters cheer; their friends weep for joy, struck by the light of love shining in their eyes.

'Oh, promise me,' their butcher's niece, a voice major from Julliard, sings.

And they do.

The End.

Previously on The Rocky Road of Love

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